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San Antonio is a bit more conservative than Austin, but much cheaper and still very nice.

My financial services firm is slowly moving everyone from NYC to Texas and Florida, for obvious reasons.

I don't think the price differential between San Antonio and Austin housing is high enough to offset the level of talent and appeal that Austin (or even Dallas for that matter) currently provides for the tech scene.

Not everyone in tech wants to live in Austin.

In software, isn't San Antonio pretty much a company town (Rackspace)?

Depends on your vertical. There are a number of O&G related startups. And (oddly) San Antonio rates just behind San Diego and Boston for Medical Device innovation (not software, but still, big tech business)

Are people quitting because they don’t want to move?

Not to my knowledge. To be more specific, roles are being moved, not people. New roles only in target market, old roles slowly attritioned out as people leave or retire. No one has been forced to move yet. That day may come, but it’s a long ways off.

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